It’s been a while since I watched a trailer for a horror flick that made my heart skip multiple beats while making my stomach drop several times like the one for Sinister did. I had my mouse cursor over the ‘pause’ button almost all throughout the trailer and I even hit the ‘mute’ button a few times out of sheer cowardice.

Yes, folks, the trailer for Scott Derrickson’s Sinister is that scary and is all kinds of creepy. If you don’t believe me, then you can watch it yourself in the player above. Turn the volume up and stream the video full screen to get the full effect–and sound off what you think about the trailer below!

Sinister stars Ethan Hawke as a true crime novelist who discovers a box of disturbing homes movies that shows other families being brutally murdered. As he looks into the films, danger lurks and his own family is plunged into a nightmarish experience of supernatural horror.